Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design

Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions and cultural-political meanings of Viennese Modernism.

List of contents

Introduction
PART 1: Beyond Amnesia: Jewish Artists, Patrons and Critics
1. Art in Vienna 1900, or the Return of the Repressed
Laura Morowitz
2. Erasing "Jewish Traces": Max Oppenheimer and the Crux of Art Historiography
Nathan J. Timpano
3. "Our Great Josef Hoffmann": Undoing the Austrian Profile of a Celebrated Architect
Elana Shapira
4. The Emigration of Egon Schiele: Jewish Refugees and Austrian Modernism in New York
Frances Tanzer
5. As if They Were Never There: Vienna's Cityscape and the Ethnic Cleansing of Memory
Steven Beller
PART 2: Beyond the "Superstars": Gendered Erasures
6. Guests or Members? Women Artists in the Circle of Egon Schiele
Andrea Winklbauer
7. Across Stage, Page and Dance Floor: Asserting the Dynamic Female Body in Klien's Kineticism
Rae di Cicco
8. The Birth of Painting from the Spirit of the Gingerbread: Anna Lesznai's Hungarian Exotic in 1920s Vienna
Julia Secklehner
9. Who Knows BEST? Gendered Views of Interwar Design Reform and Wiener Wohnkultur
Michelle Jackson-Beckett
10. From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America: Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska and the Cult of Creativity
Megan Brandow-Faller
PART 3: Beyond Klimt: Erasures of Understudied Movements/Artists/Connections
11.Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt's "Expectation and Fulfillment" in the Palais Stoclet
Debora Silverman
12. Good Art, Bad Art: The Culture Wars of Fin de Siécle Austria and Their Legacy
James Shedel
13. Robert Örley and the Other Wiener Moderne
Christopher Long
14. Josephine Baker in 1920s Vienna: Modernism, Blackness and Popular Culture
Roman Horak
15. On Erasures in Modern Architecture: Catholic "Modernism" and the Historiography of Church Building Between the Wars
Matthew Rampley
PART 4: Epilogue: Past Erasures, Present Aims: The VBKÖ in 2022
16. Speaking with Gaps and Silences in the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreichs (Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists): Introduction and Interview
Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreichs (Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists)

About the author

Megan Brandow-Faller is Professor of History at City University of New York Kingsborough.
Laura Morowitz is Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts at Wagner College.

Summary

Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions and cultural-political meanings of Viennese Modernism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Megan Brandow-Faller (Editor), Laura Morowitz (Editor), Morowitz Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032010533
• ISBN: 978-1-032-01053-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); austria, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, Vienna, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Modernism, The arts: general topics